Information about the Aspen Ideas Festival is here. I am scheduled for a session, The American Wellness Paradox, currently scheduled from 11:00-11:50 a.m., at the East Lawn Tent. This will be a discussion with senior HHS policy advisor, Calley Means. Here’s the blurb on it: “Americans are spending more than ever on healthcare, supplements, wellness trends, and “clean eating,” yet rates of chronic disease and metabolic illness continue to climb. As skepticism fuels the rise of movements like MAHA, debates over what Americans should eat have become deeply cultural, political, and economic. Two influential voices with sharply different perspectives on nutrition and food science explore how food systems, farming practices, consumer culture, and the wellness industry collided to create one of the defining public health debates of our time.”
by Marion Nestle
Apr
30
2015
Due May 8: Comments on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines
You still have time to file comments on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee report.
I’ve just been sent the comments from
- Dr. Mary Bassett, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (these are an excellent model)
- Ridge Shinn of the Sustainable Livestock Farmers (they are collecting signatures on theirs)
Yours don’t have to be lengthy, formal, or cover everything.
You just need to identify the issue, state your opinion, and indicate what you want the guidelines to do or say.
Your opinion counts. Do it now!
